Re: sounds I can't find!!!

On Mon, 16 Aug 2004 08:04:01 +0200, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:

>Americanist and Czech c-hacek is [tS].
That sign is also found in old Europe's linguistics, but rather in historic
linguistics (and dialectology) as part of an alternative system to IPA. I
think that the 'Americanist' use you're referring to is including this sign
in a mostly IPA transcription in order to have a single sign for the
phoneme /tS/?

>> Now for the tougher ones, vowel sounds.
>>
>> I realize that no two languages say sounds exactly the same. For that
>> matter, I also realize that sounds will vary, oft times greatly, between
>> regions. Bearing that in mind, how do I represent
>>
>> German 'au' or similarly Portuguese 'ao'
>
>[au], to a first approximation. The German sound might be more accurately
>indicated as [Ao], modulo dialect. Or [aw], [Aw] if you want to indicate
> the second part as a glide; it's pretty much a question of taste.
As far as I know, some use the spelling with glides to indicate that the
transcribed sound is not a phoneme, whereas spelling with two vowels
indicate that it's a diphthongal phoneme. For sure, not all make such a
distinction.

g_0ry@_^s:
j. 'mach' wust

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